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Python 3 Matplotlib Script to Export Source Code & Text With Syntax Highlighting to PDF Document
Jun 1, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will automatically convert
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the text into PDF document it can
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contain source code as well it can
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syntax highlight the source code in any
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programming language it can be in PHP
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Python JavaScript HTML CSS so I've just
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written this simple Python script it
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uses this library called as math plot
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lip if you search for this package here
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which is a very simple package here very
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popular package as well which is
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mattplot
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lip so it's a python package plotting
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package the command is simple you simply
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execute this command pip install
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mattplot
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lip so I've already installed it so I've
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given the script in the description of
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the video so now let me just show you
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how it looks like first of all I will
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execute this
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script so as I execute this you will see
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it will create a new
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file sorry file name is slightly
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different which is app 34
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py so now it you will see the PDF is
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successfully saved
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successfully it gives the file name
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as output pdf so if I try
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to open this this is the file
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here you will see it actually converted
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all this Python script that I written
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into a PDF file so it syntax
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highlighting is preserved you will see
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the formatting every part of this Python
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script is preserved so in this easy way
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you can actually convert source code of
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any language and convert this to a PDF
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document
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so so now let me show you how this build
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how you can easily do this so first of
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all you need to import the package by
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using import mattplot lip it contains
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this function py plot as plt after that
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here you need to specify the input file
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name which is uh whatever file name that
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you want to give so you give the path of
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the file after that you specify the
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output file result PDF and then we
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simply open this file input file in the
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read
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mode like this after that whatever text
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is read so we use the read function like
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this and then we say figure ax and we
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use this plt uh function right here
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which is
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subplot
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subplot subplots function after that we
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plot this text right in the pdf file
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here by using the text
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method and here we specify the
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coordinates x coordinate and then we
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specify the y-coordinate and the actual
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text and wrap is equal to
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true and then we also specify the phone
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size so here you can even control the
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phone size as well so let me say 18 you
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can pass any value after that we simply
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say access and we simply draw this
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text to off that's all and then we save
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this as a simple figure by using this uh
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save figure
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function and we simply give the format
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here which is in PDF that's
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all so that's all that we need to do
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after that it will create this if you
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just need to run
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this you just need to make sure uh phone
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size S is
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small just run this it
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will it is saying that uh
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out sorry plot
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save plot
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X it is set to output sorry so here we
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just need to replace
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output so just run this it will create
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this file here which is result PDF if
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you see the file has been successfully
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created you will see all your Python
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code is successfully converted to a PDF
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file so in this way you can do this for
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any programming language using this
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source code also check out my website
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freemediattools.com
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uh which contains uh thousands of tools
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